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New Haven Advocate's "Best of New Haven 2001" -- Staff Picks -- Scott Harris, Best Radio News Reporter WPKN Radio, 89.5 FM ISSUES IN DEPTH
'A New Era of Responsibility'
"Push Obama to Follow Through on Peace Vows," by Amy Goodman, The Capital Times (Wisconsin), Jan. 22, 2009 "How to Push Obama," by John Nichols, The Nation, Jan. 12, 2009 "The Danger of Green Stimulus," Jesse Jenkins, Huffington Post, Jan. 5, 2009 "The First Hundred Days or the Last Hundred Days? Obama's Rendezvous with Destiny -- and Ours," by Ira Chernus, by TomDispatch.com, Dec. 10, 2008 "Who Will Seize the Moment?" Turning Crisis into Opportunity, by Ralph Nader, Counterpunch, Dec. 4, 2008 "Community Organizers Press Obama for Real Change," by CommonDreams.org, Dec. 3, 2008
Civil Liberties
"The effects of Obama's refusal to investigate Bush crimes," by Glen Greenwald, Salon.com, Jan. 20, 2009 "Binding U.S. law requires prosecutions for those who authorize torture, " by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Jan. 18, 2009 "Obama Has to Hold Bush Accountable for the Laws He Broke," by Elizabeth Holtzman, The Nation, Jan. 16, 2009 "Obama Must Restore the Constitution: Prosecuting Bush and Cheney," by Dave Lindoff, Counterpunch.org, Jan. 16-19, 2009
A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE: Human Rights Solutions
"Single-Payer Health Care Would Stimulate Economy," by John Nichols, The Nation, Jan. 15, 2009 "Fulfilling the Promise of Human Rights: The Universal Declaration at 60," audio recordings from a Connecticut conference marking the 60th anniversary of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Conn., Dec. 6, 2008 A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE: Converting Fossil Fuel/War Economy to Green, Renewable Energy/Peace Economy
"Green Jobs Should Top Our Economic Recovery List," by Juleyka Lantigua, Jan. 6, 2009 "Obama Must Get Afghanistan Right,"by Katrina Van Heuvel, The Nation, Jan. 9, 2009 "Nine Steps to Peace for Obama in the New Year," by Deepak Chopra, Alternet, Jan. 1, 2009 "Electric Cars Put Hawaii on The Road to Independence," by Times Online/UK, Dec. 4, 2008 "Weapons Come Second: Can Obama Take on the Pentagon?" by Frida Berrigan, TomDispatch.com, Nov. 25, 2008 The FY 2009 Pentagon Spending Request - Global Military Spending, by the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Economic Crisis
"The Outcry Is Muted, But The Food Crisis Is Getting Worse," by Jayati Ghosh, The Guardian/UK, Jan. 9, 2009 "Ideas for Obama, "by Paul Krugman, by The New York Times, Jan. 12, 2009 "The Ponzi Scheme Presidency: Bush's Legacy of Destruction," by Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com, January/February, 2009 "Fiscal Therapy," by David Cay Johnston, Mother Jones, January/February, 2009 "A Look At Wall Street's Shadow Market: How Some Arcane Wall Street Financial Instruments Magnified Economic Crisis," 60 Minutes, Oct. 5, 2008 "Swapping Secrecy for Transparency," by Christopher Cox, SEC Chairman, The New York Times Op-Ed, Oct. 19, 2008 "The Bet That Blew Up Wall Street: Steve Kroft On Credit Default Swaps And Their Central Role In The Unfolding Economic Crisis," 60 Minutes, Oct. 26, 2008 Broken Government
"Broken Government: By The Numbers," 40 ways in which the federal government failed to perform under the administration of George W. Bush, 2001-2008 Class Warfare
"How the Rich Are Different From You and Me,"Places that went for Obama are richer and smarter than places that went for McCain, by Bill Bishop and Robert Cushing, Slate, Dec. 11, 2008 "Questions About the $700 Billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Funds, " First Report of the Congressional Oversight Panel for Economic Stabilization, Dec. 10, 2008 War And Profiteering
"This Is Change? Twenty Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to Watch for in Obama's White House," by Jeremy Scahill,Alternet, Nov. 20, 2008 "Don't Let Barack Obama Break Your Heart," Why Americans Shouldn't Go Home, by Tom Engelhardt, Nov. 12, 2008 "The Future of Iraq: The Spoils of War," Blood and oil: How the West will profit from Iraq's most precious commodity, by Danny Fortson, Andrew Murray-Watson and Tim Webb, The Independent/UK, Jan. 7, 2007 "Noam Chomsky on Middle East Conflict and U.S. War Plan Against Iraq," Between The Lines interview with Noam Chomsky, conducted by Scott Harris, for the Week Ending May 3, 2002 The Iraq Crisis, a Global Policy Forum, U.N. Security Council section on the 13 years of sanctions and other background of the war, the humanitarian situation, the importance of Iraq's huge oil resources, and disputes over a post-war government and reconstruction plan "Pipeline Politics: Oil, The Taliban, and the Political Balance of Central Asia," World Press Review Special Report, November-December 2001 |
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Mexican Swine Flu's Possible Link
Since the outbreak of the swine flu in Mexico in April, governments across the globe have braced for a dangerous pandemic. On May 5, the U.S. government reported that the number of confirmed swine flu cases across America exceeded 400 in 38 states. Despite fears that this new strain of flu could be more dangerous than normal outbreaks of the disease, health officials now believe that the H1N1 flu, as it's labeled, is no more severe than seasonal influenza. Citing an ebb in the spread of the flu, the Mexican government has recently moved to reopen universities, schools and other public places that had been closed to limit the infection rate.
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Interview with Laura Carlsen, director of the Center for International Policy's Americas Program, conducted by Scott Harris  Laura Carlsen, director of the Center for International Policy's Mexico City-based America's Program, has written about the possible source of this strain of swine flu. In an article titled, "Mexico's Swine Flu and the Globalization of Disease", Carlsen reports that the origin of the disease may be connected to Carroll Farms, a huge factory hog farm located in the town of Perote, in Veracruz state, co-owned by the U.S.-based corporation Smithfield Foods. In early March, local Mexican health officials issued a health alert, claiming that 60 percent of the residents of Perote suffered from flu, pneumonia and bronchitis, symptoms later associated with the current swine flu outbreak. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Carlsen, who discusses the connection between swine flu in Mexico, factory farming and the weakening of environmental and health standards mandated under the North America Free Trade Agreement. Contact the Center for International Policy's Americas Program by calling (202) 232-3317 or visit their website at ciponline.org Related links:
Activists Gear Up After a few years of headline-grabbing major demonstrations around the country in favor of immigration reform, immigrants and their supporters have been less visible in the streets this year. But despite their lack of visibility, they have been actively campaigning for major reforms, including a path to citizenship for the millions in the U.S. without documents. President Obama recently announced his intention to enact comprehensive reform this year. In early May, Obama said that under his administration, enforcement will focus more on arresting employers who knowingly hire undocumented workers, rather than the workers themselves, although officials said they would continue to detain such workers found in workplace raids.
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Interview with Luis Roberto Vera, conducted by Melinda Tuhus 
In a victory for undocumented immigrants, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision on May 4, declaring that a federal identity theft statute requires that a person knowingly use the Social Security number of another person in order to be in violation of the law and therefore can't be used to prosecute immigrants who randomly pick a Social Security number which may or may not belong to a real person. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Luis Roberto Vera, national general counsel for the League of United Latin American Citizens, or LULAC. He discusses his organization's goals in the coming congressional debate on immigration reform. Contact LULAC's Washington, D.C. office at (202) 833-6130, or visit the group's website at www.lulac.org
Rise of U.S. Hate Groups
When a government report, describing concern over the rise of rightwing hate groups and their targeted recruitment of U.S. veterans returning from America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, conservative politicians and radio talk show hosts accused Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano of disrespecting veterans. Napolitano later made a public apology to the National Commander of The American Legion.
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Interview with Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project, conducted by Scott Harris  But the report which triggered the controversy cited facts that many independent groups maintain are accurate. Since the election of Barack Obama, the United States' first African-American president, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, militias and all manner of hate-spewing, right-wing extremist groups have seen a jump in membership, with new chapters sprouting across the country. Far right groups, exploiting widespread concern about the economic downturn, have predictably scapegoated minorities, particularly Latinos, while gun rights groups and conservative Christians have used Obama's election as a rallying cry for support as they stoke fear about new restrictions on gun ownership and congressional hate crimes legislation that some believe will impinge on their right to bear arms or speak out in opposition to the gay lifestyle. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project, who assesses the economic and political conditions in the U.S. that have led to increased activity by right-wing extremist groups and their relationship with the Republican Party. Contact the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project at (334) 956-8200 or visit their website at www.splcenter.org Related links:
Credits: Executive producer: Scott Harris Segment producers: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus Senior news editor: Bob Nixon Program narration: Denise Manzari News reader: Emily Santos-Poplawski Copy editor: Chris Ferrio Senior web editor/producer: Anna Manzo Web producer: Jeffrey P. Yates Web consultant: Gary Trujillo Newswire editor: Hank Hoffman Photo editor: Scott Harris Outreach coordinator: Anna Manzo Distribution: Anna Manzo and Jeffrey P. Yates Theme music: Written by Richard Hill and Jody Gray, and performed by Mikata
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